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<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2268766%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="172" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-03/St.%20Pats%20NYC.JPG?itok=CKCpaiaP" style="float: right; width: 220px; height: 172px;" width="220" />The organizers of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade have announced that, for the first time in the parade's 253-year history, it will allow an LGBT organization to march under its own banner. Earlier this year, GLAAD urged sponsors to reconsider support of the discriminatory parade, after which Heineken and Guinness ended their sponsorship. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/nyc-st-patricks-day-parade-end-anti-gay-ban">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2273970%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="155" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-08/emily%20yoffe%20dear%20prudence.jpg?itok=Z9zS6hTF" style="float: left; width: 220px; height: 155px;" width="220" />GLAAD was among the first outlets to comment on nationally syndicated advice column Dear Prudence's harmful edition, "Private Bi," in which Prudence urged a bisexual woman to stay in the closet. GLAAD's critique of Slate and its column were cited in LGBT outlets, including <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/08/27/advice-columnist-married-bisexuals-should-stay-in-the-closet/">PinkNews</a>, <a href="http://www.autostraddle.com/ten-truly-terrible-pieces-of-advice-offered-to-and-about-bisexuals-252393/">Autostraddle</a>, and <a href="http://www.advocate.com/bisexuality/2014/08/28/glaad-condemns-slates-emily-yoffes-advice">The Advocate</a>. GLAAD is continuously reaching out to Slate editors, urging them to meet with representatives of the bi community to learn best practices for media coverage as well as the harms of identity erasure. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/dear-prudence-telling-bi-people-stay-closet-bad-advice">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274110%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="82" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/MichaelSam_header.png?itok=LRC_PfQr" style="float: right;" width="220" />When ESPN aired a disrespectful segment about Michael Sam's showering habits, GLAAD was in communication with ESPN to emphasize the harms of stereotypes and the company's responsibility to do better. ESPN later apologized for the segment. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/espn-apologizes-michael-sam-shower-segment">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2273673%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="124" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-08/Michael%20Brown%20shooting.jpg?itok=_ppm3qVn" style="float: left;" width="220" />Noting that "the LGBT community cannot be silent at this moment," GLAAD joined 16 other LGBT organizations issuing a letter to stand with the family of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager who was fatally shot by the police in Ferguson, Missouri. GLAAD also encouraged its followers into action. <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/how-you-can-stand-michael-browns-family-and-people-ferguson">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2258542%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="92" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/r-ISLAN-NETTLES-large570.jpg?itok=V5ITKx8S" style="float: right;" width="220" />GLAAD joined the Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC) of Greater New York in a Call to Action on August 18, marking one year since the brutal assault of Islan Nettles. Within 42 days of New York City's Pride celebrations, five transgender women of color – Yaz'min Shancez, Tiffany Edwards, Zoraida Reyes, Mia Henderson, and Kandy Hall – were reported killed. Several transgender advocates and allies have been invited to speak at today's vigil including GLAAD's Senior Strategist, Tiq Milan. <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/nyc-trans-women-color-collectives-call-action-and-demonstration-islan-nettles">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272963%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-07/Flowchart.png?itok=oXX8Y-oc" style="float: left;" width="147" />Upworthy, the viral content media company, <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/some-men-and-women-arent-getting-the-pap-smears-and-prostate-exams-they-need-for-one-dumb-reason">shared GLAAD and SRLP's flowchart</a> explaining why Medicaid programs should provide coverage for transgender-related healthcare. The flowchart was created as part of an ongoing campaign around trans-inclusive healthcare coverage. In their post, Upworthy also included even more specific statistics supporting the information in the flowchart.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274177%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="165" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/big%20brothers%20big%20sisters%20monica.jpg?itok=7H5AcutB" style="float: right; width: 220px; height: 165px;" width="220" />GLAAD's director of Spanish-language media <a href="http://www.glaad.org/about/staff/monicatrasandes">Monica Trasandes</a> recently worked with 20 staffers at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, training them how to harness the power of the media by equipping them with powerful talking points, effective interview techniques, and more. Many of the agency's personnel work with LGBT volunteers and with the Latino community. Helping volunteers, community members and youth become comfortable discussing LGBT issues is an important goal for the agency in Los Angeles. GLAAD is now discussing possibilities for working with the national organization to ensure training guides are updated and include respectful and correct LGBT terminology and messages.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274179%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="125" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/national%20association%20hispanic%20journalists%20nahj.png?itok=Ce16Nqlz" style="float: left; width: 220px; height: 125px;" width="220" />GLAAD's Spanish-language media strategist <a href="http://www.glaad.org/about/staff/janetquezada">Janet Quezada</a> recently spoke at a panel at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, which celebrated its 30<sup>th</sup>anniversary. Janet was on the panel with Samuel Aguilera, the President of the Orgullo de San Antonio Council #22198 and Joey Palacios from Texas Public Radio and their goal was to educate journalists and journalism students on best practices in covering the LGBT community. While there, Janet also worked with Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and the Orgullo Council to teach best practices local LGBT advocates about discussing LGBT community issues with the media<a href="http://esperanzacenter.org/">. The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center</a> is a long standing community organizing and performance space run by longtime LGBT advocate Graciela Sanchez and the Orgullo Council is one among a growing number of the League of Latina American Citizen's councils that has organized people at the intersection of Latino and LGBT issues and identities.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274180%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="192" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/Daniel%20Ashley%20Pierce.JPG?itok=6W6C6OiW" style="float: right;" width="220" />GLAAD's Director of News, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/about/staff/rossmurray">Ross Murray</a>, wrote commentary about the viral video of a family using their Christian faith to disown and assault their son. Ross wrote that the message this family was taught was not a Christian message, but one that bears "bad fruit." "If we encounter preaching and teaching that this sort of discrimination is acceptable, or even desirable, we have a duty to call it the false teaching that it is. Calling out bad theology isn't anti-Christian. In fact, it may be exactly what Christianity needs to survive and even thrive in this day and age." Read more <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/video-should-make-every-christian-cringe-what-do-we-do-about-it">here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272405%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="111" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-06/TheNamingProject.jpg?itok=nDLOsuVd" style="float: left;" width="220" />The Minneapolis Star Tribune highlighted the campers who attended The Naming Project Summer Camp, a groundbreaking summer camp that is a safe haven for Christian youth of all sexual and gender identities run by GLAAD's Director of News, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/about/staff/rossmurray">Ross Murray</a>. In the Star Tribune article, many campers expressed what the camp means to them. Farley, a transgender 16 year old, said "It's such a feeling of coming home." <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/minneapolis-star-tribune-profiles-naming-project-lgbt-christian-youth-camp">Read more here</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274181%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/guiliani%20latino%20equality.jpg?itok=TAvwMDNt" style="float: right;" width="220" />GLAAD's Spanish-language media team worked with Guiliani Alvarenga, Los Angeles advocate and member of Latino Equality Alliance, to prepare for him for an appearance on CNN en Español's Realidades en Contexto. The segment touched on the viral video by Daniel Pierce that documents how his family shamed him when he came out. Alvarenga shared his own testimony and urged people to intervene and share resources with youth who need support if their own families react in this manner.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274182%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/Mario%20Itzel%20Suarez.jpg?itok=dvKdnFbA" style="float: left;" width="146" />GLAAD's Spanish language media team helped place a powerful op-ed by Mario Itzel Suarez, a trans man from Texas in the San Antonio Express-News. The piece illuminates his experiences in the public education system and the importance of allies in states that do not have protections for LGBT workers. The San Antonio Express-News is one of the largest daily newspapers in Texas. You can read the piece<a href="www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Grateful-for-allies-in-human-rights-fight-5677505.php"> here.</a></p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2274183%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-09/Gabriel%20Garcia%20Vera.jpeg?itok=IP32fYzG" style="float: right;" width="220" />GLAAD's Spanish-language media department helped place an op-ed, in which LGBT advocate Gabriel Garcia-Vera addressed to his late<em> abuelo</em> or grandfather on the Miami Herald website. In it, Garcia-Vera talks about why he fights for LGBT equality, access, and justice. He also shares a picture of himself at a rally that became a meme on social media. You can read the full op-ed <a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2014/07/queer-activist-in-open-letter-to-late-abuelo-if-you-were-still-here-would-you-support-love-is-louder.html">here.</a></p>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/issues/bisexuality">Bisexuality</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/trans-women-color-collective-greater-new-york">Trans Women of Color Collective of Greater New York</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/islan-nettles">Islan Nettles</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/emily-yoffe">Emily Yoffe</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/monica-trasandes">Monica Trasandes</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/national-association-hispanic-journalists">National Association of Hispanic Journalists</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/janet-quezada">Janet Quezada</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/samuel-aguilera">Samuel Aguilera</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/joey-palacios">Joey Palacios</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/texas-public-radio">Texas Public Radio</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/esperanza-peace-and-justice-center">Esperanza Peace and Justice Center</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/graciela-sanchez">Graciela Sanchez</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/st-patrick%E2%80%99s-day-parade">St. Patrick’s Day Parade</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/new-york-city">New York City</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/minneapolis-star-tribune">Minneapolis Star Tribune</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/naming-project-0">Naming Project</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ross-murray">Ross Murray</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/guiliani-alvarenga">Guiliani Alvarenga</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/latino-equality-alliance">latino equality alliance</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/daniel-pierce">Daniel Pierce</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/mario-itzel-suarez">Mario Itzel Suarez</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/gabriel-garcia-vera">Gabriel Garcia Vera</a></li>
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Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:07:04 +0000alexandrabolles72172 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/snapshots-dear-prudence-trans-healthcare-big-brother-big-sister-and-more#commentsRoman Catholic institutions don't stop firing LGBT employeeshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/roman-catholic-institutions-dont-stop-firing-lgbt-employees
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-1-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="1" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-09/Cor%20Jesu%201.JPG?itok=BscNwyiO" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The number of employees and volunteers fired from Roman Catholic parishes, schools, and organizations continues to roll unchecked. GLAAD has previously brought you the stories of <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/fired-catholic-school-teacher-carla-hale-files-complaint-city-columbus">Carla Hale</a>, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/update-catholic-church-rejects-nicholas-coppolas-petition-reinstatement">Nicholas Coppola</a>, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/eastside-catholic-high-school-get-divorced-or-get-fired">Mark Zmuda</a>, <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/judge-rules-allow-former-new-york-teachers-anti-transgender-discrimination-lawsuit">Marla Krolikowskii</a>, and more. And there have been <a href="http://newwaysministryblog.wordpress.com/catholic-employees-and-lgbt-issues/">even more terminations that haven't received as much widespread attention.</a></p>
<p>That streak continues in St. Louis, Missouri, and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.</p>
<p>At the Cor Jesu Academy in St. Louis, Olivia Reichert and Christina Gambaro were fired after the school got a copy of their mortgage application, reflecting the fact that they had gotten married in New York over the summer.</p>
<p>And in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit, Barbara Webb was fired before the semester began because of what the school called her "non-traditional" pregnancy. Webb is in a committed relationship with another woman.</p>
<p>There is an organized response for Reichert and Gambaro. A group, calling itself <a href="http://chargersallies.com/">Chargers Allies has begun to build a Facebook and a web presence right now</a>. <a href="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/09/03/firing-lesbian-teachers-st-louis-catholic-girls-school-draws-outcry/">Religion News Service reports:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Chargers Allies member Coco Fernandez, 22, an alumna of the school who now lives in Chicago, said she wants all who work and attend Cor Jesu to “feel welcomed and accepted as who they are, regardless of sexual orientation.”</p>
<p>Fernandez also said Reichert had been one of her favorite teachers at the school.</p>
<p>“She was a great role model for the girls. She was always kind,” Fernandez said.</p>
<p>“We are being taught to be open and accepting of everybody, and yet teachers are being fired because of their sexual orientation,” Fernandez said when speaking about her education at Cor Jesu.</p>
<p>In a Facebook post, Gambaro wrote that although alumnae support for her and her wife had been overwhelming, “the law is not on our side, nor is the church, so we have no ground to stand on.”</p>
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<p>Often, when Catholic employees are fired, they receive local attention, but there has been little widespread media attention on the ongoing epidemic of firings from Roman Catholic institutions. <a href="http://newwaysministryblog.wordpress.com/catholic-employees-and-lgbt-issues/">New Ways Ministry is compiling a list of known firings since 2008</a>. This resource is helpful to understand how widespread the internal persecution is against LGBT people in the Roman Catholic Church. Additionally, there is a wide gap between the Roman Catholic hierarchy, who largely has been driving the firings, and everyday Catholic people, <a href="http://publicreligion.org/research/2011/03/for-catholics-open-attitudes-on-gay-issues/">who widely support LGBT equality</a>.</p>
<p>GLAAD encourages media to take a look at these individual stories, and place them in the wider context of the Roman Catholic hierarchy opposing LGBT equality. </p>
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Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:48:57 +0000rossmurray72149 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/roman-catholic-institutions-dont-stop-firing-lgbt-employees#commentsESPN apologizes for Michael Sam shower segmenthttp://www.glaad.org/blog/espn-apologizes-michael-sam-shower-segment
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-2-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="2" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/MichaelSam_headerMain.png?itok=_PLJCjcs" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>ESPN today apologized for a segment that aired on Tuesday's edition of Sports Center, during which a reporter spoke with St. Louis Rams players about teammate Michael Sam's showering habits. Sam is the NFL's first openly gay player.</p>
<p><a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/08/espn-apologizes-for-report-on-michael-sams-showering-habits">In a statement posted to ESPN's website, the company stated</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>ESPN regrets the manner in which we presented our report. Clearly on Tuesday we collectively failed to meet the standards we have set in reporting on LGBT-related topics in sports.</p>
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<p>ESPN also expressed its 'sincere regrets' on Wednesday's edition of Sports Center.</p>
<p>GLAAD has been in communication with ESPN to emphasize the serious harms of stereotypes and the company's responsibility to do better. </p>
<p>In May, ESPN received accolades and was credited for raising the bar in LGBT-inclusive reporting for its coverage of Michael Sam's draft and, in particular, <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10921644/michael-sam-coverage-networks-was-business-usual">the network's broadcast of a moving kiss</a> shared between Sam and his boyfriend upon Sam learning he had been drafted to the St. Louis Rams. </p>
<p>Tuesday marked the first round of NFL cuts, which requires each team must pare down its roster to just 75 players. Sam, who delivered a notable performance during a Saturday game versus the Cleveland Browns, was selected as one of the 75 players to remain on the St. Louis Rams.</p>
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Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:05:10 +0000rossmurray72073 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/espn-apologizes-michael-sam-shower-segment#commentsCommentary and organizing to stand with the people of Ferguson, Missourihttp://www.glaad.org/blog/commentary-and-organizing-stand-people-ferguson-missouri
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-3-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="3" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-08/Michael%20Brown%20shooting.jpg?itok=ZCLp6ICm" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Since the shooting of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager from Ferguson, Missouri, we've seen a fair amount of commentary from the community about racism in America. GLAAD has worked diligently to uplift the voices of black LGBT leaders who have been speaking out.</p>
<p>Today's post explores personal narratives that shed more light on the same stories that are being raised in Ferguson. It is through these personal stories that we can better understand the systemic racism that continues to pervade our cultures and how it intersects with our advocacy for people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.</p>
<p><img height="196" width="150" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-file-styles-400px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/400px/public/images/2014-08/Ace%20Robinson.jpg?itok=H2wefvmo" alt="" />Ace Robinson, <a href="http://www.aviellefoundation.org/about-the-foundation/our-founders/">Director of Health Education, Prevention, and Public Policy &amp; Advocacy at Lifelong</a> in Seattle is originally from St. Louis. He knows Ferguson well, and he wrote in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ace-robinson/why-i-fled-st-louis_b_5683510.html">Huffington Post</a> (and later a shorter op-ed for the <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2024370719_acerobinsonopedferguson25xml.html">Seattle Times</a>) about why he left St. Louis.</p>
<blockquote><p>As a teenager in St. Louis, I, like many of my friends, experienced constant harassment from the police. The week after I got my driver’s license, I was pulled over after dropping a friend off at his apartment with another friend in the car for absolutely no reason. All three of us were black.</p>
<p>There’s a term for this: It’s called Driving While Black. The police verbally berated and demanded to know why we were in that apartment complex, where the tenants were predominately white. I went home and told my mother, a public school teacher, what occurred. The result: I listened to my mother cry herself to sleep after we filed an official complaint, knowing that nothing would come from it.</p>
<p>As a teenager, I never drove without a tape recorder in the car. When I experienced my weekly — often biweekly — police pullover, I would place it on the dashboard and hit record.</p>
<p>When the officer walked up to the car, I would say: “Good afternoon, Officer (Insert name),” announce the date and time, and ask why I was being stopped. This script might have saved my life more than once. After Rodney King, black men learned police may be held responsible when their actions are recorded. And even in Los Angeles, that was not guaranteed.</p>
<p>I used academics to get away by attending college on the East Coast, in the same way that my mother used education to flee the Jim Crow South 35 years prior to my birth.</p>
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<p><img height="300" width="200" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-file-styles-200px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/images/2014-08/Zach%20Stafford.jpg?itok=lIWqqRiK" alt="" />Zach Stafford, the author of BOYS, as well as a contributor to the Chicago Tribune, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/25/white-brother-police-shot-black-man?CMP=twt_gu">writes for the Guardian about his relationship with his brother</a>. Zach is biracial, and his brother is a white police officer in Tennessee. One night, he read that his brother was involved in a shooting and shot a black man. Stafford wrote about how he grappled with that news for years following:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]hat’s also when I began to see just how much racism isn’t really about a single act or a single person, but rather a much larger system. A system that calls the recurring death of black male bodies “accidents”.</p>
<p>No matter how my mom had raised us, no matter how much my brother loved my blackness and was so proud of me for who I was, it still didn’t stop another black man from losing his life.</p>
<p>My white brother isn’t a racist – and he didn’t intentionally kill that man because he was black – but that’s not the point. In his case – in Ferguson and in so many other cases – we see the deaths of unarmed black men as “accidents”. And until the day we all recognize them as casualties of something much bigger, we will continue to see black men dead on the news.</p>
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<p><img height="200" width="200" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;" class="media-element file-file-styles-200px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/200px/public/images/2014-08/Black%20Lives%20Matter.png?itok=tSrVXvai" alt="" />From August 28-31, the “Black Life Matters Ride,” an initiative of <a href="http://blacklivesmatter.tumblr.com/">‪#‎BlackLivesMatter</a>, will bring activists and professionals of color from across the country to Ferguson, Missouri, as part of a national call to end state sanctioned violence against Black people. Support the ride by visiting the <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/fergusonfreedomride-neast">GoFundMe page for the Black Life Matters Ride</a> and making a contribution. </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 26, 2014</span></div></div></div>
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Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:30:01 +0000rossmurray72069 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/commentary-and-organizing-stand-people-ferguson-missouri#commentsWill Michael Sam make the NFL cut? #SamFans are watchinghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/will-michael-sam-make-nfl-cut-samfans-are-watching
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-4-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="4" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/MichaelSam_headerMain.png?itok=_PLJCjcs" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL player, had three sacks in preseason games, but now faces a crucial test. It's the week that the NFL finalizes their rosters, and #SamFans are watching to see if Sam will stay with the Rams, be picked up from another team, or be cut completely from the NFL.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.outsports.com/2014/8/25/6064809/nfl-cuts-michael-sam-gay-rams-roster">Outsports has full commentary:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>If <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/players/245825/michael-sam">Michael Sam</a> gets cuts this week by the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/st-louis-rams">St. Louis Rams</a> this week it won't be because of homophobia. However, if the other 31 NFL teams pass up on Sam if he's released, homophobia will play a role.</p>
<p>This week Michael Sam learns whether he’ll make an NFL roster. By Tuesday at 4 p.m. EDT, all 32 teams must reduce their roster to a maximum of 75 players. If he survives this cut, the next one comes Saturday after the St. Louis Rams' have played their fourth and final preseason game. If he is released then, all 31 teams will have a chance to pick him up.</p>
<p>Sam has proven he can play in the NFL. Only two other players have more sacks this preseason than his three. In a league that places a high value on pass rushers, and continues to develop rules that help passing offenses, guys like Sam are coveted. Sacks aside, he’s played well or very well in each of his three preseason games. Various Rams beat reporters, including Jim Thomas and Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have lauded Sam’s performance. In limited preseason action he’s racked up five tackles, in addition to the three sacks. </p>
<p>And in case anyone tries to dismiss this because it’s "just preseason," his first sack on <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/players/245314/johnny-manziel">Johnny Manziel</a> on Saturday was against 6-foot-6 offensive tackle <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/players/194579/martin-wallace">Martin Wallace</a>, who’s been on the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/teams/cleveland-browns">Browns</a> roster for a year. </p>
<p>Sam’s done all of this with as much pressure on him as anyone else in the NFL has ever felt. If there was any doubt, Sam’s ESPYs speech in July made it clear he knows the hopes of an entire national community rest on his shoulders. </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.outsports.com/2014/8/25/6064809/nfl-cuts-michael-sam-gay-rams-roster">Read the cull commentary at Outsports.com.</a></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">August 25, 2014</span></div></div></div>
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Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:50:03 +0000rossmurray72061 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/will-michael-sam-make-nfl-cut-samfans-are-watching#commentsFerguson shows how much work is left to do in the United Stateshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/ferguson-shows-how-much-work-left-do-united-states
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-5-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="5" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-08/Michael%20Brown%20shooting.jpg?itok=ZCLp6ICm" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Last week, GLAAD shared with you some of the ways in which <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/how-you-can-stand-michael-browns-family-and-people-ferguson">you could stand in solidarity with the family of Michael Brown and the people of Ferguson, Missouri</a>. As the story continues to unfold, it brings to light instances of violence and harassment experienced by people of color, as well those who are LGBT, all around the country.</p>
<p>Thousands have signed the <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/mike_brown/?source=coc_website">Color of Change petition</a>, calling on federal and city officials to rigorously investigate, prosecute, and fire all officers involved in Michael's shooting and cover up. By signing, your signature will be added to a letter sent to the US Department of Justice and local Ferguson law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>Reconciling Ministries Network, the United Methodist LGBT advocacy organization, sent leaders to Ferguson to talk to locals and share the stories from the community. The Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey is spending time in Ferguson and recounting her visit on the <a href="http://www.rmnblog.org/">Reconciling Ministries Network blog</a>. Click through to hear first-person accounts of residents, faith leaders, and protestors.</p>
<p>The unfolding story in Ferguson has not only been about Ferguson, but about the whole country. In New York City, residents are gathering to protest the choking death of Eric Garner by New York City police. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/michael-brown-eric-garner_n_5695800.html">Michael Brown's family</a> will join New York City protesters in Long Island against police brutality.</p>
<p>And just this week, advocates gathered to remember the one year anniversary of the brutal murder of Islan Nettles. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/trans-women-color-collective-led-call-action-one-year-after-assault-islan-nettles">The Trans Women of Color Collective of Greater New York led a Call to Action</a> this past Monday at Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem to remember Islan and to call for action. Transgender women live under the constant threat of violence and discrimination. There are hundreds of videos online of transgender women fighting and being taunted for being who they are and five trans women have been murdered in the last 42 days.</p>
<p>GLAAD continues to call for justice in Ferguson, in New York, and for people around the country. If you have an action to share, or want to <a href="http://www.glaad.org/shareyourstory">share your story with GLAAD, do it here</a>. </p>
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Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:51:09 +0000rossmurray72033 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/ferguson-shows-how-much-work-left-do-united-states#commentsHow you can stand with Michael Brown's family and the people of Fergusonhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/how-you-can-stand-michael-browns-family-and-people-ferguson
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-6-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="6" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-08/National%20Moment%20of%20Silence.jpg?itok=1G5PRWdK" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yesterday, we shared that GLAAD and several other LGBT organizations issued an <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-stands-michael-browns-family-against-violence">open letter in support of Michael Brown's family</a>, and decrying the police violence faced by people of color across our country. A section of that statement describes why it is important for LGBT people and organizations to speak out on issues of injustice:</p>
<blockquote><p><img height="225" width="400" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-file-styles-400px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/400px/public/images/2014-08/Michael%20Brown%20shooting.jpg?itok=UYUCy6iX" alt="" /></p><p>The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community cannot be silent at this moment, because LGBT people come from all races, creeds, faiths and backgrounds, and because all movements of equality are deeply connected. We are all part of the fabric of this nation and the promise of liberty and justice for all is yet to be fulfilled.</p>
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<p>GLAAD calls its followers to continue to stand in support of Michael and against violence and victimization by those in authority. We've identified a few ways you can do that.</p>
<p><img height="267" width="400" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;" class="media-element file-file-styles-400px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/400px/public/images/2014-08/MoodieMills-Headshot.jpg?itok=7LV99UDD" alt="" />To learn more, and to get an in-depth discussion from a few of the best Black LGBT commentators, listen to <a href="http://blis.fm/Politini/">Politini tonight</a> at 8pm ET. Danielle and Aisha Moodie-Mills will host guest Darnell Moore and Mychal Denzel Smith to discuss Michael's story, the night of his shooting, and the heavy response from law enforcement. </p>
<p>Sign the <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/mike_brown/?source=coc_website">petition by Color of Change</a> calling on federal and city officials to rigorously investigate, prosecute, and fire all officers involved in Michael's shooting and cover up. Your signature will be added to a letter sent to the US Department of Justice and local Ferguson law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>Gather in your own community for a National Moment of Silence at 7pm ET/4pm PT. In cities across the country, people will gather in solidarity to hold vigils and observe a moment of silence to honor victims of Police Brutality, including Michael. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NMOS2014">A Facebook page lists the gathering locations for 90 cities</a>. Find one in your city (or create one today) and join your neighbors to vigil for an end to racial profiling and police brutality. If you attend, tweet with the hashtag #NMOS14 (<a href="https://twitter.com/FeministaJones">started by @FeministaJones</a>).</p>
<p>Whichever of these actions you choose to do (or suggest other ones in the comments below), continue speaking out in solidarity against profiling and brutality of all underserved populations. </p>
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Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:10:56 +0000rossmurray71971 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/how-you-can-stand-michael-browns-family-and-people-ferguson#commentsGLAAD stands with Michael Brown's family, against violencehttp://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-stands-michael-browns-family-against-violence
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-7-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="7" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-08/Michael%20Brown%20shooting.jpg?itok=ZCLp6ICm" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Noting that "the LGBT community cannot be silent at this moment," <a href="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/lgbt_organizations_issue_joint_statement_in_support_of_michael_brown_s_family">GLAAD has joined sixteen other LGBT organizations issuing a letter to stand with the family of Michael Brown</a>, the African-American teenager who was fatally shot by the police in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was unarmed, and witnesses say his hands were in the air when he was shot multiple times. </em></p>
<blockquote><p>August 12, 2014</p>
<p>When communities experience fear, harassment and brutality simply because of who they are or how they look, we are failing as a nation. In light of the recent events in Missouri, it is clearer than ever that there is something profoundly wrong in our country.</p>
<p>The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community cannot be silent at this moment, because LGBT people come from all races, creeds, faiths and backgrounds, and because all movements of equality are deeply connected. We are all part of the fabric of this nation and the promise of liberty and justice for all is yet to be fulfilled.</p>
<p>The LGBT community stands with the family of Michael Brown, who was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri. We stand with the mothers and fathers of young Black men and women who fear for the safety of their children each time they leave their homes. We call on the national and local media to be responsible and steadfast in their coverage of this story and others like it--racialized killings that have marred this nation since the beginning of its history. We call on policy makers on all levels of American government not to shrink from action, and we are deeply grateful to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice for their immediate commitment to a thorough investigation.</p>
<p>At this moment, we are inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies ... but the silence of our friends.”</p>
<p>ACLU<br />Center for Black Equity, Inc.<br />Equality Federation<br />Gay &amp; Lesbian Advocates &amp; Defenders (GLAD)<br />GLAAD<br />GMHC<br />Human Rights Campaign<br />National Black Justice Coalition<br />National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR)<br />National Center for Transgender Equality<br />National Gay and Lesbian Task Force<br />National Minority AIDS Council<br />National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) PFLAG National<br />Pride at Work, AFL-CIO<br />Soulforce<br />Southerners on New Ground (SONG)<br />United AIDS </p>
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Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:01:20 +0000rossmurray71962 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-stands-michael-browns-family-against-violence#commentsLocal Missouri paper resists, then relents covering local Pride eventshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/local-missouri-paper-resists-then-relents-covering-local-pride-events
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-8-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="8" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-07/Pulaski%20paper2.jpg?itok=3zqSx_Zn" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Yesterday, the <em>Pulaski County Daily News</em> caused a local stir when responding to a local's inquiry about a Pride Luncheon at Ft. Leonard Wood, a U.S. Army base in southern Missouri. The response was a rant from the paper's owner and one of the journalists, Darrell Maurina.</p>
<p><img height="590" width="400" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-file-styles-400px" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/400px/public/images/2014-07/Pulaski3a.jpg?itok=DdEyA9I0" alt="" /><a href="http://www.boommagstl.com/index.php/news-a/99-regional/244-paranoia-stigma-and-blatant-discrimination-are-still-present-in-rural-missouri">According to the St. Louis based LGBT site, BOOM:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Jackson, 24, had posted a query regarding the date of the event on the personal Facebook page of Darrell Maurina – journalist and owner of Pulaski County Daily News, which focuses heavily on base activities. She was no stranger to Maurina – having shadowed him as an 18-year-old student when he worked for the Daily Guide.</p>
<p>"This is an event I do **NOT** want to promote or encourage, and one which I do not plan to attend unless some other media organizations also attend,” replied Maurina. “I've already asked U.S. Army Fort Leonard Wood public affairs personnel to alert me if any other media plan to attend the event; I'll cover it if I have to do so, but it's not something to which I want to give attention if nobody else is doing so." Pulaski3a</p>
<p>The out lesbian and dependent of her retired U.S. Army father was taken aback.</p>
<p>“His reaction seemed very emotionally charged,” Jackson said. “It didn’t’ seem like him at all because he always came from a more fact-based reaction. He didn’t even address what I asked. I was kind of a shock that he made something big out of something that wasn’t even brought up.”</p>
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<p>The posting prompted a wave of support from LGBT allies on the newspaper's Facebook page. The speaker was slated to be Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa Duncan, who has been <a href="http://www.army.mil/article/127863/Pride_Month_speaker_shares_life_experience/">profiled on the Army web site in anticipation of the luncheon</a>.</p>
<p>In a shift, yesterday, the newspaper posted that it was be attending the luncheon. The post said, "Due to the sensitivity of the issue, I will be working exclusively off my tape rather than running live coverage." He also stated that the story would be posted that same day. If Maurina thinks that a luncheon featuring a lesbian member of the military is too sensitive for reporting, then there is concern that his reporting is going to be problematic, slanted, and biased. The <a href="http://pulaskicountydaily.com/index.php">web site for the <em>Pulaski County Daily News</em></a> is quite outdated, so it is unclear if people outside of the local area will get to see the reporting.</p>
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Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:00:38 +0000rossmurray71553 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/local-missouri-paper-resists-then-relents-covering-local-pride-events#commentsPHOTOS: St. Louis mayor, officials perform marriages for same-sex couples in defiance of ban on marriage equalityhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/photos-st-louis-mayor-officials-perform-marriages-same-sex-couples-defiance-ban-marriage
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-750px" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272481%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="407" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/Missouri%20Weddings%201.jpg?itok=UOMrR3PZ" style="width: 750px; height: 492px;" width="620" /></p>
<p>Last night in Missouri, at the mayor's request, four couples had their marriages performed by St. Louis officials in an historic act of advocacy against the statewide ban on marriage equality. The ceremonies were performed on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal ban on marriage equality, being struck down.</p>
<p>Mayor Francis Slay, who is the city's longest serving mayor, was joined by several officials in making this show of support for LGBT equality a reality. In City Hall, the couples received their marriage certificates, Municipal Judge Joseph Murphy officiated four separate ceremonies held in the mayor's office, and Recorder of Deeds Sharon Quigley Carpenter signed the licenses.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-medium" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272482%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_medium%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2014-06/francis%20slay%20st%20louis%20mayor.jpg?itok=wfYqZ9L4" style="float: left;" width="168" />"Make no mistake about it,” <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-challenges-missouri-s-same-sex-marriage-ban/article_7fe77475-63f4-5d44-8c25-87aa4449946f.html">Mayor Slay told St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a>, “I, and all of us standing here, are doing this to force the issue and to get the law settled for everyone who wants to get married in the state of Missouri. If we weren’t doing this, no other city in Missouri would.”</p>
<p>Mayor Slay said in a statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is our belief that the U.S. Constitution requires the recognition of same-sex marriages. And Missouri law requires a Recorder of Deeds to issue a marriage license to any couple who is "legally entitled" to such a license. We have created a clear, direct legal challenge to Missouri's unconstitutional ban on marriage equality. We hope to get this before the courts to settle this issue on behalf of all gay and lesbian people in our state...I strongly commend the courage of the couples, some of whom I have known for years; others of whom I have met only recently. They will face scrutiny of the intolerant, supported by the love and respect of most fair-minded people. I wish them every happiness, and I pledge the full resources of my office to affirm the solemn contracts they have made to each other.</p>
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<p>St. Louis, which is both a county and a city, is behind the first direct challenge to Missouri's constitutional ban on marriage equality. Officials are prepared to challenge the ban in the U.S. Supreme Court, finding that the ban violates the nation's constitution.</p>
<p>Among the newlyweds are John Durnell and Richard Eaton, together for 39 years and devoted community advocates; Tod Martin, deputy chief of staff for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, and his partner David Gray; Miranda Duschack and Karen "Mimo" Davis, who jumped a broom to signify the state's refusal to recognize their union; and Bruce Yampolsky and Terry Garrett, who are active in advocacy and Democratic politics, and also formerly served in the Navy and Army, respectively.</p>
<p>"We take our freedoms for granted once we achieve them," said John, 63, moments before he and Richard, 75, were married.</p>
<p>GLAAD has been working closely with the mayor's office to share these couples' stories and the city officials' actions to bring marriage equality to the entire state.</p>
<p>Tweet about this moment in LGBT history using <strong>#showmemarriage</strong>.</p>
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<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-750px" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272500%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20show%20me%20marriage%202.jpg?itok=tb8AO_zU" /></p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-750px" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272501%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20show%20me%20marriage%203.jpg?itok=dklwRQ3r" /></p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-750px" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272502%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20show%20me%20marriage%204.jpg?itok=4vvUncsV" /></p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-file-styles-750px" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272503%22,%22view_mode%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22file_styles_750px%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20show%20me%20marriage%205.jpg?itok=MIrM3X4_" /></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/gallery/news/multimedia/four-gay-couples-marry-in-st-louis/collection_2c84fb0d-b7b1-5632-893b-bfbde7d46528.html#0">Check out pictures from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a> below:</p>
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<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-media-original" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272486%22,%22view_mode%22:%22media_original%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22media_original%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="442" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/1200px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20weddings%204_0.jpg?itok=KKspBxgk" width="620" /></p>
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<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-media-original" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272489%22,%22view_mode%22:%22media_original%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22media_original%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="450" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/1200px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20weddings%206.jpg?itok=dmBu4KGJ" width="620" /></p>
<p><img alt="" class="media-element file-media-original" data-file_info="%7B%22fid%22:%2272490%22,%22view_mode%22:%22media_original%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22media_original%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D" height="414" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/1200px/public/images/2014-06/missouri%20weddings%208.jpg?itok=KoRf6ykF" width="620" /></p>
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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:09:22 +0000alexandrabolles71452 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/photos-st-louis-mayor-officials-perform-marriages-same-sex-couples-defiance-ban-marriage#comments"License to Discriminate" vetoed in Arizona but still on the table in 7 stateshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/license-discriminate-vetoed-arizona-still-table-7-states
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="234" src="http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/bestoftv/2014/02/27/ac-arizona-marquez.cnn" width="416"></iframe></p>
<p>Nearly a quarter of the country have recently considered or are still considering bills similar to the <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/breaking-arizona-governor-vetoes-anti-lgbt-bill">"License to Discriminate" SB 1062 that was vetoed this week</a> by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.</p>
<p>SB 1062, also known as "License to Discriminate," would have enabled business owners in Arizona to legally refuse service to people for being LGBT. As legislatures approved the proposed law, politicians, sports leagues, faith leaders, and more than <a href="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/Gov_Brewer_Veto_Letter.w_Signatures.pdf">80 companies</a> urged Gov. Brewer to veto it, naming the bill as blatant discrimination and dangerous to the local economy.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, the end of SB 1062 is something to be celebrated—but it is not an opportunity to rest. In Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2014/02/missouri-republican-introduces-bill-allowing-religion-based-discrimination-against-gays.html">Missouri</a>, Ohio, Oregon, and South Dakota, bills continue same vain as Arizona's continue to exist. Similar ones have been shot down or withdrawn in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Tennessee, and Utah.</p>
<p>Though, as with Arizona's now-defunct bill, a number of these bills do not explicitly target the LGBT community by name, LGBT folks would most likely be targeted in practice, as they have previously been turned away from businesses citing religious beliefs. Additionally, as the video above states, in states including Arizona, there are no anti-discrimination laws on the books to protect the community from discrimination.</p>
<p>CNN provided <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/politics/religious-freedom-states/index.html?iref=allsearch">a succinct rundown</a> of the remaining bills today in an article titled "Arizona's anti-gay bill veto unlikely to end 'religious freedom' movement." Check it out for descriptions of each state's proposals and how close they are to being signed into law.</p>
<p>Displaying a disconnect between government officials' behaviors and the American people's interests, a survey conducted by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/gay-discrimination-poll_n_4861542.html">The Huffington Post recently found</a> that the majority of Americans, across the political spectrum, oppose legislation that allows business owners to deny customers' service if the owners claim doing otherwise would violate their beliefs.</p>
<p>While such laws would be detrimental to the LGBT community at large, The Advocate recently highlighted how the <a href="http://www.glaad.org/transgender">trans</a> community would be impacted to a heightened degree. In "<a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/02/25/proposed-az-law-adds-more-bias-toward-trans-people">Proposed AZ Law Adds More Bias Toward Trans People</a>," Arizona resident and trans advocate Toni D'orsay, who serves as <a href="thisishow.org/‎">This is HOW</a>'s executive director, is explained:</p>
<blockquote><p>"How is one going to know someone is 'gay?' Unless they have a personal knowledge of the person, they are going to go after what they think of as gay, and all too often that means, in the minds of the general public, trans people, just as it did in NYC in the late 1960's," D'orsay said, referencing the <a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2013/10/24/does-stonewall-commemorative-plaque-erase-trans-peoples-role-riots?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter">Stonewall riots</a>, one of the early catalysts in the LGBT movement, in which trans people played a key role. . . "As one of the trans leaders in the state, I can say that the antagonism against our lives as pushed by right wing groups like the <a href="http://www.advocate.com/news/2004/01/16/phoenix-suns-drops-conservative-group-sponsorship-after-complaints-10991">Center for Arizona Policy</a> and its leader, Cathi Herrod, are behind the bill," D'orsay said. "Most of the legislature is not particular anti-trans, it is a group of those from the right who represent very affluent, very pale districts that have the problem."</p>
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<p>As GLAAD celebrates the narrow victory in Arizona, we urge you to join us as we work to stop bills that are pointedly bad for these states, bad for LGBT people, and bad for business.</p>
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:58:14 +0000alexandrabolles70031 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/license-discriminate-vetoed-arizona-still-table-7-states#commentsMissouri denies benefits to partner of State Trooper killed in the line of dutyhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/missouri-denies-benefits-partner-state-trooper-killed-line-duty
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-9-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="9" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/glossip_engelhardt.jpg?itok=xAl6OV4G" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Missouri State Highway Patrolman Capt. Dennis Engelhard and his partner Kelly Glossip were together in a loving relationship for fifteen years, until Dennis Engelhard's untimely death on Christmas Day in 2005 while on duty. The couple also have a seventeen year old son. The case was heard by the Missouri Supreme Court who ruled, in a 5-2 decision, that Kelly Glossip was not entitled to survivor's benefits. The decision to deny Mr. Glossip benefits was not based on the couple's sexuality, it was based on the fact the couple was not married, according to the decision. Missouri is a state without marriage equality.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a statement PROMO of St. Louis, a statewide LGBT advocacy, emphasized disappointment in the ruling.</p>
<p>“The Missouri Supreme Court decided on narrow grounds to deny survivor benefits because Kelly Glossip and Cpl. Dennis Englehard were not married in a jurisdiction where marriage is legally recognized,” says the statement. “The Supreme Court ruling was a disappointment for Kelly Glossip and their son. The ruling denies a true recognition for the commitment of the couple and their family. They exchanged rings on Christmas Day, several years before the passing of Engelhard.”</p>
<p>A.J. Bockelman, executive director of PROMO, says the opinion offered by the court is shameful.<br />"With the wave of lawsuits and marriage cases going forward around the country, this statement is an embarrassment to justice, equality, and will be go down in history as a blemish,” says Bockelman. “Make no mistake, equality and justice will prevail, and the fight will continue."</p>
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<p>Read more of the tragic story <a href="http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/same-sex-partner-of-patrolman-killed-on-duty-denied-survivor-benefits/d/story/4tGVQrkaJEGGWOdSW_crbQ#.UnBcOVdl-jU.facebook">OzarksFirst.com</a>.</p>
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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:00:27 +0000nicholascoppola68872 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/missouri-denies-benefits-partner-state-trooper-killed-line-duty#commentsMissouri Rep. Kevin Elmer is offended by high school's Gay-Straight Alliance t-shirtshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/missouri-rep-kevin-elmer-offended-high-schools-gay-straight-alliance-t-shirts
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-10-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="10" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/gaytweet1-Rep%20Kevin%20Elmer.jpg?itok=jfuTQkPy" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Missouri state Rep. Kevin Elmer took a photograph of a Nixa High School student wearing a t-shirt supporting the school's Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). He then tweeted the photo with the caption "Nixa Schools failure. HS students working elementary school book fair in gay t-shirts". As bad as that sounds, it gets worse. He tweeted the photo on <a href="http://www.glaad.org/spiritday">Spirit Day</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>He tweeted the photo on October 17, which is <a href="http://www.glaad.org">Spirit Day</a>, a three-year-old holiday dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ folks and ending homophobic abuse and bullying. A.J. Bockelman, executive director at PROMO Missouri, says Elmer's tweet is bullying. "He's trying to call out an entire class of students who are gay or lesbian, or perceived to be or support gay or lesbian students, and trying to put them on trial for being supportive in their school."</p>
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<p><a href="http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/10/missouri_rep_kevin_elmer_calls_gsa_nixa.php">Riverfront Times</a> has the complete story.</p>
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Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:22:16 +0000nicholascoppola68706 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/missouri-rep-kevin-elmer-offended-high-schools-gay-straight-alliance-t-shirts#commentsGay Catholic priest comes out after anonymously publishing book two years agohttp://www.glaad.org/blog/gay-catholic-priest-comes-out-after-anonymously-publishing-book-two-years-ago
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-11-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img id="11" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/Fr-Gary-Meiers-e1369483344663%20%281%29_0.jpg?itok=CqnjJuXq" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In 2011, the book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Voices-Reflections-Catholic-Priest/dp/1484106792">Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay Catholic Priest</a></i> was anonymously published, and distributed around the world. The book was republished a month ago – this time, with a name in the same place that once said anonymous. Gary Meier is a now openly gay Catholic priest from St. Louis, Missouri who has decided to end his silence in the name of the equality for the LGBT community.</p>
<p>In his book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Voices-Reflections-Catholic-Priest/dp/1484106792">Hidden Voices</a></i>, Meier writes about his struggle with being a part of a church hierarchy that is strongly anti-LGBT. While the Catholic Church claims that they accept and love LGBT people as children of God, Meier feels as though the Catholic hierarchy has grown increasingly hostile toward the LGBT community.</p>
<p><img class="media-image" id="6" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;;;;;" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/9781466907836_p0_v1_s260x420_1.jpg?itok=bTsWG3kb" alt="" />The book went public with an anonymous author 2 years ago, and since then Meier has decided he can't suffer in silence any longer. "I have tried over the years to reconcile my silence as a gay priest, with that of the church's increasingly anti-gay stance," Meier writes in his recently republished book, "I have been unsuccessful." A month after <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Voices-Reflections-Catholic-Priest/dp/1484106792">Hidden Voices</a></i> was republished, Meier responded in a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fr-gary-m-meier/questions-after-coming-out-as-a-gay-catholic-priest_b_3337040.html">Huffington Post</a> blog to the most frequently asked questions he has received since he outed himself as a gay Catholic priest: "Why now," and "what now?"</p>
<p>While Meier isn't entirely sure of the answer to the second question, he is entirely sure of the answer to the first. Many people have asked him "why now? Is it because you're dating someone?" To this question, Meier understandingly answers "of course not." Like any other Catholic priest, Meier has taken an oath of celibacy, and contrary to popular belief, he disputes the idea that celibacy has even been an issue in his time in the Catholic Church. Instead, Meier has struggled most with the anti-LGBT teachings of the Catholic Church, and that is why he has chosen now to speak up.</p>
<p>Meier quotes St. Catharine of Sienna in his reasoning for ending his silence. "Speak the truth with a thousand voices. It is silence that kills the Earth," and it is apparent that Meier feels as though his silence has kept him from helping other LGBT Christians like himself. "In so many ways I wish I had spoken sooner," Meier laments. "If I have any guilt at all," he goes on to explain, "it's is because I have waited this long to speak up."</p>
<p>The second question he gets asked frequently is, "what now?" Meier, quite like many others, isn't entirely sure of what the future holds for him, but he is sure that whatever it is will include advocating for the LGBT community. His efforts to advocate for the LGBT community have already begun with a <a href="http://www.risingvoices.net/">faith-based internet initiative called Rising Voices</a>, a website dedicated to positive feedback for the LGBT community from the rising voices of faith that affirm LGBT people. The website boasts a rainbow banner and positive messages from Christians all around the US, with the words "your voice matters," in large red font at the top of the page.</p>
<p>Meier serves as a positive role model, not only for the young LGBT community looking for where they and their faith fit into the world, but also as a voice of progressive change from inside the church by having the courage to stand up for what he believes is important and right. "Now I speak the truth," he explains, "the truth that God has given me to speak. The truth about love, acceptance, and what it means to be a gay Catholic priest."</p>
<p>Here is a video from Fr Gary Meier about Rising Voices.</p>
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Fri, 31 May 2013 21:03:35 +0000hannahkreider66240 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/gay-catholic-priest-comes-out-after-anonymously-publishing-book-two-years-ago#commentsGLAAD Speaks Out About Civil Unions, DOMA, and the Missouri Couple Denied Hospital Visitation http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-speaks-out-about-civil-unions-doma-and-missouri-couple-denied-hospital-visitation
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img class="media-image" height="168" id="2" style="height: 168px; width: 300px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;;;" width="300" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/wdaf_hospital_rights_130411a-615x345.jpg?itok=Ndtt9B-T" alt="" />Yesterday, <a href="http://fox4kc.com/2013/04/10/man-no-longer-allowed-to-visit-husband-at-kc-area-hospital/">news broke</a> that Roger Gorley was arrested while trying to remain at the bedside of his partner, Allen, in the Kansas City, Missouri area. While many details of the situation remain unclear, their story calls much-needed attention to the unequal treatment of gay and lesbian couples, even when they have put legal safeguards in place.</p>
<p>"The Supreme Court just heard arguments about how DOMA hurts gay and lesbian couples, and Roger and Allen are demonstrating how much harm comes from this discriminatory law," said Wilson Cruz, National Spokesperson for GLAAD. "Civil unions were not good enough for Roger and Allen. A power of attorney didn't protect them. Nothing short of full marriage equality will fully and effectively protect couples from attacks like what happened to Roger and Allen."</p>
<p><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/04/12/1857741/what-actually-happened-to-that-same-sex-couple-in-the-missouri-hospital/">ThinkProgress</a> synthesized many of the accounts, stories, and statements as they have been developing. Allen's daughter has given <a href="http://www.weareatheism.com/arrested-at-hospital-just-for-wanting-to-hold-his-partners-hand/">her account</a> of what has taken place. The clear image that is emerging is that Roger and Allen were treated differently because they were a gay couple.</p>
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<p>The couple had power of attorney forms for one another, in order to make medical decisions for one another. They had also obtained a civil union. And yet, Roger and Allen were discriminated against by Allen's family, the hospital, and the police. This could not have happened to a husband and wife, and their legal safeguards did not help when they were needed most. The fact of the matter is that Roger and Allen were discriminated against because they were a gay couple. </p>
<p>The story of Roger and Allen comes just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court hear legal challenges to the discriminatory 'Defense of Marriage Act' (DOMA) which denies gay and lesbian couples rights and protections under the law. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/marriage">GLAAD was on the ground before the Supreme Court</a>, calling for the freedom to marry for all couples. A ruling is expected in July.</p>
<p>Some lawmakers and leaders have suggested civil unions as an acceptable 'compromise' to granting full marriage equality. Anti-marriage equality lawmakers in <a href="http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_22934321/gay-marriage-gop-representative-propose-alternative-civil-unions">Minnesota have proposed civil unions</a> as a way to avoid granting the freedom to marry to all couples. The reality is that a civil union also did not protect this couple from discrimination. The reality is that there is nothing that will provide all the protections of marriage except for marriage. </p>
<p>GLAAD will follow the story of Roger and Allen, as well as continue to show real examples of the harm that DOMA and marriage inequality does to loving and committed couples.</p>
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:58:07 +0000rossmurray64448 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-speaks-out-about-civil-unions-doma-and-missouri-couple-denied-hospital-visitation#commentsGay Man Arrested for Staying at His Partner's Bedside at Hospitalhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/gay-man-arrested-staying-his-partners-bedside-hospital
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img class="media-image" height="140" id="2" style="height: 140px; width: 250px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left;;;" width="250" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/wdaf_hospital_rights_130411a-615x345.jpg?itok=Ndtt9B-T" alt="" />A <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/11/missouri-man-arrested-at-hospital-for-refusing-to-leave-gay-partner/">Missouri man was arrested because he stayed by his partner's bedside in the hospital</a>. Roger Gorley was keeping vigil by the bedside of his partner Allen, when a member of Allen's family asked him to leave. The hospital refused to recognize Roger as a part of Allen's family, put him handcuffs, and escorted him out of the building. Roger is now unable to see his partner at all, because of a restraining order following his arrest.</p>
<p>This all happened, despite the fact that Roger and Allen have a civil union and power of attorney for one another. Roger stated that the nurse refused to confirm the power of attorney, which states that the two can made medical decisions for one another.</p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="166" id="2" style="height: 166px; width: 250px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;;;;" width="250" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5548292520_4640547247_o.jpg?itok=tgLZwWvT" alt="" />This is also despite a 2010 memo from the Obama administration, directing hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid to allow visitation rights for gay and lesbian partners. President Obama signed the memo because of the story of <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/white-house-interviews-presidential-citizens-medal-recipient-janice-langbehn">Janice Langbehn</a>, who was not allowed to visit her partner, Lisa Pond, who died of a brain aneurism. After hearing of Janice’s story, President Obama went on to revise laws for federally funded hospitals around visitation for lesbian and gay couples. She was later presented with the President Citizens Medal.</p>
<p>"What this hospital did to Roger and Allen was repugnant," said GLAAD spokesperson Wilson Cruz. "President Obama has made it clear that no other couple should ever have to experience this, but there are clearly still some who work in the healthcare industry who value their own homophobia over the dignity of their patients and their families."</p>
<p>Research Medical Center, where Allen was treated, states that it doesn't not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. However, in their statement, they also made it clear that they do not consider Roger a part of Allen's family.</p>
<p>“We believe involving the family is an important part of the patient care process,” the hospital said in a statement. “And, the patient`s needs are always our first priority. When anyone becomes disruptive to providing the necessary patient care, we involve our security team to help calm the situation and to protect our patients and staff. If the situation continues to escalate, we have no choice but to request police assistance.”</p>
<p>As the country has been in an ongoing shift on marriage equality, examples like that of Roger and Allen remind us why marriage equality is so important. It is so that couples can care for one another in their time of need. Clearly, in this case, civil unions, and all the accompanying legal safeguards put in place were not enough to keep this couple together.</p>
<p>A Change.org petition has already garnered neraly 4,000 signatures. <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/research-medical-center-missouri-apologize-to-roger-gorley-address-homophobic-behavior-of-staff">Add your name</a> to tell the hospital to apologize to Roger and Allen and address the anti-gay behavior of the staff.</p>
<p>GLAAD will continue to lift up stories like that of Roger and Allen and other couples who are harmed by not having the <a href="http://www.glaad.org/marriage">protections of marriage</a>. We call on the United States to recognize the freedom to marry for all couples. </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 11, 2013</span></div></div></div>
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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:54:02 +0000rossmurray64409 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/gay-man-arrested-staying-his-partners-bedside-hospital#commentsRoman Catholic Church Leaders Choose Doctrine Over Human Dignityhttp://www.glaad.org/blog/roman-catholic-church-leaders-choose-doctrine-over-human-dignity
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In recent years, the Roman Catholic Church has seen the divide grow between the actions of church leadership and what’s in the hearts of the people they are supposed to represent. This month alone, three separate stories illustrate how this divide is alienating faithful Catholics. In these three examples from North Carolina, Maryland, and Missouri, Catholic clergy and organizations chose to put rigid church doctrine ahead of human dignity and pastoral care in moves that have generated even more criticism for the church over its position on the acceptance and welcome of LGBT people.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2012/02/post_252.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Bill and Steav Bates-Congdon" class="media-image" id="2" style="float: left; width: 207px; height: 136px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://www.glaadblog.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Steav%20and%20Bill%20Bates%20Congdon.jpg?itok=58sgCWG4" /></a> Steav and Bill Bates-Congdon had been together for 23 years before marrying in New York after the passage of marriage equality. Until being fired on January 19, Steav served as the music director at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, where parishioners said he was open about his relationship with Bill. Steav even spoke with Rev. Frank O’Rourke before his wedding and said that the pastor congratulated him, but cautioned that he could not give Steav and Bill his blessing. Steav told Rev. O’Rourke that he didn’t expect a blessing for their marriage. The wedding took place on October 15, 2011. On January 19, 2012, <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/12/3004849/music-directors-marriage-leads.html">after returning from his honeymoon and then recuperating from emergency surgery to remove his appendix</a>, Steav was handed a note that states, in part: “Your civil marriage stands in direct opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church, therefore ending your employment with us.” Had he been given any indication that his marriage would lead to him being fired, Steav says he and Bill would have postponed their wedding until after his retirement.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/catholic-school-fires-gay-teacher-planning-wedding/article_c65612c2-c939-55e2-b379-acfffcd594ed.html" target="_blank"><img alt="Al Fischer" class="media-image" id="6" style="float: right; width: 134px; height: 145px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://www.glaadblog.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Al%20Fischer.jpg?itok=qCywiI4S" /></a>A similar story played out in Missouri, where music teacher <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/catholic-school-fires-gay-teacher-planning-wedding/article_c65612c2-c939-55e2-b379-acfffcd594ed.html#ixzz1nnBna0wM">Al Fischer was fired from his position at St. Ann Catholic School</a> in Normandy after a representative of the St. Louis Archdiocese learned that he was planning on traveling to New York in order to marry his partner of 20 years. As with Steav and Bill, Fischer’s relationship with Charlie Robin was not a secret at St. Ann Catholic School. Many parents have expressed their dismay at Fischer’s firing, noting that he was popular with students and had done impressive work during his time as music teacher at St. Ann Catholic School.</p>
<p>Unlike Steav Bates-Congdon and Al Fischer, Barbara Johnson has never been an employee of a Catholic Church or school. But she, too, has been <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/gay-issues/gay-catholics-condemns-priest%E2%80%99s-denial-communion-lesbian-during-mothers-funeral">unfairly singled out by an agent of the church because of who</a> she loves. Johnson was denied communion by Father Marcel Guarnizo at her own mother’s funeral in Gaithersburg, Maryland, after the priest heard that she was in a relationship with a woman. Father Guarnizo also walked out during Johnson’s eulogy and refused to attend the graveside service for her mother. Although the Archdiocese of Washington has issued a statement saying that the priest acted incorrectly, their concern still seems to be with dogma, rather than pastoral care and human dignity. The Archdiocese’s statement says that Father Guarnizo should have taken Johnson aside and spoken to her in private , but that he still should have denied her communion at her own mother’s funeral.</p>
<p>The actions of the Catholic Church in all three cases call into question whether church leaders are more concerned with obedience and its conservative image than caring and compassion. Steav Bates-Congton and Al Fischer’s firings are legal, according to the recent Supreme Court decision, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-01-11/hosanna-tabor-church-state-case/52500140/1"><em>Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission</em></a>, which reaffirmed that “authority to select and control who will minister to the faithful is the church's alone.” But neither man is in a direct ministerial position and both are well-liked and respected in their communities. Barbara Johnson was already dealing with the grief of losing her mother; Father Guarnizo’s actions, which indicate that he does not consider her a full Catholic, lack compassion for a human being who is already suffering. To magnify her pain by rejecting her from the church was unnecessarily cruel.</p>
<p>All three cases also indicate how out of touch the Catholic Church is with lay Catholics, who overwhelmingly support both <a href="blog/roman-catholic-church-out-touch-lgbt-equality">LGBT acceptance</a> and <a href="blog/american-catholics-support-marriage-equality-despite-church-position">marriage equality</a>. And these are just <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-t-duddyburke/samesex-marriage-is-dange_b_1274544.html">three of the many</a> cases that could have been highlighted. GLAAD has reached out to all three affected individuals, as well as LGBT Catholic organizations to address these matters. We extend our sympathy to Barbara Johnson, and wish Steav and Bill Bates-Congton and Al Fischer and Charlie Robin congratulations on both their marriages. We hope that the Catholic hierarchy will come to see that human dignity should take precedence over rigid adherence to doctrine and ask our readers to <a href="webform/report-media-defamation">alert us to any problematic coverage</a> of these and related stories.</p>
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:12:47 +0000miriamlazewatsky49027 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/roman-catholic-church-leaders-choose-doctrine-over-human-dignity#commentsGLAAD Travels to Missouri for Annual LGBT Conferencehttp://www.glaad.org/2008/10/13/glaad-travels-to-missouri-for-annual-lgbt-conference
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Recently GLAAD's Central Region Media Field Strategist, Sarah Kennedy, visited Kansas City, Missouri, to participate in <a href="http://promoonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=blogsection&amp;id=10&amp;Itemid=77">PROMO's Annual Equality Conference</a> and engage local journalists in conversations about reporting on LGBT issues.</p>
<p>Sarah arrived on Friday, in time to meet with the past and current board presidents of the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (<a href="http://www.kcavp.org/" target="_blank">KCAVP</a>) for breakfast. They discussed the state of local media and LGBT issues, and also laid groundwork for future collaborations between Sarah and the KCAVP's communications committee.</p>
<!--more--><p>Later that day, Sarah met with the Executive Director and Associate Director of the <a href="http://www.aclukswmo.org">ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri</a> to discuss their <a href="http://www.aclukswmo.org/full_content.php?article_id=814&amp;full=yes&amp;pbr=1">work on LGBT issues</a>.</p>
<p>Sarah was also able to speak with local journalists, including the editor of LGBT publication <a href="http://www.campkc.com/">Camp KC</a>, and the Readers' Representative of the Kansas City Star, one of the top 50 largest-circulation papers in the country. A big part of GLAAD's successful media advocacy work comes from our relationships with media.</p>
<p>Our work with local community partners is also vital to success. GLAAD met up with supporters, members and staffers of <a href="http://promoonline.org/">PROMO</a> at an event at one supporters' home Friday evening. The event was well-attended by both new and longstanding supporters. Local LGBT and LGBT-friendly politicians were on hand to talk about PROMO's great work throughout the state as well.</p>
<div style="width: 120px;float:right;"><img title="Sen. Justus" src="http://www.missouridems.org/i/joliejustus.jpg" alt="Sen. Jolie Justus" width="110" height="135" /><p>Sen. Jolie Justus </p>
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<p>Most memorable perhaps was when openly lesbian <a href="http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/members/mem10.HTM">Sen. Jolie Justus</a> addressed the crowd and talked about how vital PROMO's support was to her campaign win.</p>
<p>Rounding out the weekend, Sarah presented a Media Essentials workshop to attendees of PROMO’s yearly Missouri Equality Conference, which brought together LGBT activists, faith leaders, college students and allies. All participants left the training with talking points and counsel on sharing their individual and organizational work with local media.</p>
<div style="width: 150px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.glaad.org/publications/CollegeGuide.php"><img class=" " title="Ref. Guide" src="http://www.glaad.org/publications/CollegeGuideLetter.jpg" alt="GLAADs College Media Reference Guide" width="140" height="181" /></a>
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<p>Later in the conference, Sarah met with student activists and reporters from St. Louis’ <a href="http://www.wustl.edu/">Washington University </a>to distribute copies of GLAAD’s <a href="http://www.glaad.org/publications/CollegeGuide.php">Media Reference Guide for College Journalists.</a></p>
<p>Sarah's trip to Missouri was a very productive and successful one, further building GLAAD's relationships while also helping to educate many advocates and allies.<br /></p><div align="left">
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/anti-lgbt-violence">anti-LGBT violence</a>, </li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/college-media-reference-guide">College Media Reference Guide</a>, </li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:14:42 +0000glaad31171 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2008/10/13/glaad-travels-to-missouri-for-annual-lgbt-conference#comments